Discrimination in the New South

Laws that legalized segregation through legislation was called ________. laws

• discrimination

• legislation

• Jim Crow

• public policies

An example of a Jim Crow law would be ________.

• walking publically

• segregated bathrooms

• praying at church

• reading in public

Plessy v. Ferguson was a Supreme Court Case that upheld ___________ in public places.

• praying

• reading

• writing

• segregation

In the Plessy v. Ferguson case, Homer Plessey was arrested for

• sitting at a white-only lunch counter.

• hitting a black cop.

• sitting in a white-only section of a railroad co.

• for not getting up for a white person coming by.

Plessey vs Fergusion ruling made it ok to segregate if _______

• everyone agrees

• if police like it

• if there is the same access to something

• if the courts approve every decision

Plessy v. Ferguson made it ok to allow segregation

• in public places

• in private

• in churches only

• in state parks only

One way of stopping African Americans from being treated equally was called ____________ laws.

• American

• Black

• Jim Crow

• Erights ual

One way of stopping Blacks from voting was giving them a tax called _______ tax.

• Poll

• State

• Federal

• city

Another way to discourage blacks from voting was to make them take a __________ test.

• math

• writing

• physical

• Literacy

A group called the _________ would be at the voting poll to discourage blacks from voting.

• Whites

• KKK

• Peace Corps.

• Police